Monday, November 11, 2013

The real reason Republican leadership hates ObamaCare

The Affordable Care Act (which is now law) provides health insurance to nearly 30 million Americans who did not previously have it. It requires health insurance companies to treat Americans fairly. It mandates a set of health insurance standards to ensure that Americans understand the kind of coverage they are getting. It eliminates "junk" insurance that does not truly provide helpful coverage. It provides Americans with a known set of insurance coverages which they have the freedom to choose from.

The law provides subsidies to those families and individuals who could not otherwise afford sensible coverage. It prevents insurance companies from denying insurance for individuals with pre-existing conditions. It prevents insurance companies from dropping individuals when their illness becomes too costly to the insurance company. It provides women with free preventive care for such things as PAP smears. It allows children to remain on their parent's insurance policy until they are 26 years old. It eliminates lifetime caps and ensures Americans can remain insured during catastrophic illnesses. It provides for rebates to insured Americans if their insurance company charges more than 20% of their premium price for management and administrative costs.

The Congressional Budget Office has indicated that the Affordable Care Law will return money to

the economy. They found that repealing the law would increase the deficit by 108 billion over 10 years. It has been estimated that the increase in the number of patients will add a windfall of profits to doctors, hospitals and medical device manufacturers. That profit is estimated to be so high, that most medical device manufacturers have agreed to pay the government back over 80 billion dollars in ten years. The rise in the patient population is said to be good for jobs.

Where expanded medicaid is implemented in the states, it will cover the very poor and improve state economies not only by preventing costly emergency room visits by the uninsured, but also by providing states with 100% of the cost involved in implementing it in the first three years and 90% of the cost in all future years.

The well being and pursuit of happiness of Americans that is guaranteed by our constitution will improve for millions and millions of Americans because of the law. So what is the real reason that Republican leadership hates it?

We have heard Republican complaints that people will lose their jobs, businesses will reduce full time employees and death panels led by the Obama administration will decide who lives and dies because of the law. Is any of it true or is it just more Republican fear mongering? You can rest assured that none of it is true and it is just more Republican fear mongering.

Fox news has assisted in this fear mongering by inviting a few guests who have misrepresented their situations so as to appear affected by the law, but when investigated by outside impartial observers, have been found to be mistaken. Fox news' Sean Hannity has had several staged shows where his invited "audience" of Fox news reporters make stuff up to continue the lie that ObamaCare is the worst thing ever.

We know that Republicans hate ObamaCare. They have proven it over 40 times when they have wasted taxpayer money to try to repeal it unsuccessfully. Ted Cruz, that Canadian born Tea Party Senator, has even given a performance in a "filibuster of nothingness" to show his determination that ObamaCare is bad. He's made millions by conning the American public to support his efforts with contributions in television ads.

So lets get down to it. The real reason Republican leaders hate ObamaCare has a lot to do with Republican leadership's commitment to a decision they made as a group while President Obama was being inaugurated in 2009. They all agreed to make the President ineffective in any way they could. During his first term, Mitch McConnell publicly announced that their most important goal was to make Obama a one term President.

Failing that, they continued to support their goal that this President's legacy will show that he accomplished nothing during his terms in office. Republicans in Congress have used their power of filibuster, obstruction and majority rule in the House to prevent passage of everything proposed by the Democrats and the President. The 112th and 113th Congresses, both of which have had Republicans controlling the House, have been the least effective in the history of the United States, passing no substantial legislation in either session. But that is their goal and they are accomplishing it very effectively, regardless of the impact it has on America.

They are hopeful that when time passes and the memory of their personal acts of destruction to America are forgotten, what history will record is that the first black American President could not accomplish anything. They are counting on the fading memories of Americans who know about their actions and the ones who don't know the difference in the legislative branch and the executive branch, to wrongly see the President as ineffective. Their hope is to never allow a black Democrat to become elected President again. Somehow, their perverse and some would say, bigoted ideas about this appear to them to be the thing that returns public opinion and favoritism to Republican candidates for the office.

The one thing that saves President Obama from this is ObamaCare and Republicans hate that fact. They hate that all of their efforts may be for nothing unless this ObamaCare law is erased from history. And so it has become the most important thing that Republicans can target in order to accomplish their goal.

Americans must begin to see the truth about ObamaCare. They must see the lies coming from the Republican party. Any party that is willing to take such devious actions and sacrifice Americans to carry out their partisan goals does not deserve to be in office.

Your vote is the key to returning decency to government. I urge you to vote Democrat in all elections.